Comments on: Google: a new friend on Facebook? http://www.cagedether.com/2007/07/10/google-a-new-friend-on-facebook/ Missives from a social media practitioner with a background in media peppered with social research experience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: emo http://www.cagedether.com/2007/07/10/google-a-new-friend-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-475 emo Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:11:30 +0000 http://www.cagedether.com/2007/07/10/google-a-new-friend-on-facebook/#comment-475 there was a bidding war for facebook between google and yahoo a while ago, but nothing came from it. i guess they're back on the offensive now they've realised they can simply buy out all the top traffic websites. it's starting to look like a monopoly huh? but what i was going to comment about was facebook's ridiculous privacy policy. check out these links, the first is a nice and concise presentation, the other is a bit more wordy: http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/ http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t34949.html so combine that with google's data and what have you got? the basis of a perfect conspiracy theory ;] the one good thing that might come out of google buying facebook is that, where i doubt facebook would think twice about handing data over to any authorities, google has already fought (and defeated) the american government in court over such things. but still.. terrifying stuff :] there was a bidding war for facebook between google and yahoo a while ago, but nothing came from it. i guess they’re back on the offensive now they’ve realised they can simply buy out all the top traffic websites. it’s starting to look like a monopoly huh?

but what i was going to comment about was facebook’s ridiculous privacy policy. check out these links, the first is a nice and concise presentation, the other is a bit more wordy:
http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t34949.html

so combine that with google’s data and what have you got? the basis of a perfect conspiracy theory ;]

the one good thing that might come out of google buying facebook is that, where i doubt facebook would think twice about handing data over to any authorities, google has already fought (and defeated) the american government in court over such things.

but still.. terrifying stuff :]

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